MISSOULA, Mont. — A 3-year-old boy reported missing for three days from a campground was found safe and unharmed.

Scantily clad and without food, Kenneth Gerken survived three nights with temperatures dropping into the low 40s. He was found Sunday by a volunteer taking part in the search.

“If you believe in miracles, folks, Missoula got one today,” Missoula County Sheriff Mike McMeekin said Sunday night. “You never give up, but I was really getting oriented toward a recovery (of a body.)”

Kenneth was reported missing Thursday evening at the Kreis Pond campground near Missoula. His mother, Karinda Gerken, had been staying there with the boy and his infant brother, awaiting a move into a residence.

The boy was reunited with his mother late Sunday, a “very happy — and lucky — little boy,” McMeekin said.

Shivering
The searcher who found Kenneth, Tony Kasauskas, said he was sitting on a logging skid trail near the top of a knob.